Yes…it’s a QUEST! Not a journey…. but something between a quiz and a test. **Btw, 8th graders… I know your 8th grade project night is on Tuesday night. Don’t sweat it. Just make sure you understand the main concepts, and you should be fine. It won’t be a doozy like that Human Body test. I promise.

QUEST dates:

Block I: Monday, May 13

Block II: Tuesday, May 14

Block III: Monday, May 13

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Musical notes:

Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic band, Sigur Rós. This song is from his solo album:

Here’s a video that shows how electrons move in a circuit (scroll about halfway through the video) It shows the movement correctly from the negative end of a battery towards the positive end, however, remember that when we draw the path of the electric current, we actually draw it from positive to negative (We have Ben Franklin to blame for that confusion!).

“Electric Feel” is by MGMT, an American psychedelic-rock-electronic band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band is made up two members, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden, who met while attending Wesleyan University. The song is from their debut album, Oracular Spectacular.

Here’s the music video:

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The Magnetic Fields is an indie pop band founded and led by Stephin Merrit. His bandmate and friend, Claudia Gonson, helped to start the band in 1989. Their songs are known for their catchiness, but also off-beat humor, bitterness, and irony.

Here’s one of my favorites, “Absolutely Cuckoo,” as a soundtrack for a toy monster and robot love story:

A simple animation to demonstrate what happens with static electricity. It will download to your computer.

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And here is a really silly one…but it shows how charges can be picked up when you (or John Travolta) rub your socks on a carpet, and how there is an electric discharge when he gets near the metal doorknob.